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Would you like a special one-of-a-kind gift to give to a loved one? How about a unique birthday present? An anniversary gift that your spouse will never believe, nor forget? A beautiful reminder of a lost loved one? Would you like to be able to immortalize your prized 1957 Chevy? See your band from the early days to the big-time? View all of your vacations from around the world from over the years all at one time? Relive your entire wedding day in one shot? You name it and Inkblot's Murals & Collages can do it for you. if you have the pictures, we have the talent. You just provide said pictures and we'll take care of the rest. Here are some potent examples of Inkblot's quality artistic designs and vision used in his murals and picture collages: NOTE: The following works are all copyrighted and are not for sale: An American Prayer - This work was completed shortly after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Alice in Chains - This work was done after the death of Alice in Chains singer, Layne Staley, in April 2002. Columbia Space Shuttle - This work was done in memory of the Columbia Shuttle crew who were lost on February 1st, 2003. Jason Becker - This work was done for Jason Becker, a popular guitarist from the 1980's who has Lou Gehrig's Disease. Dru Sjodin - This work was done in memory of Dru Sjodin, who was murdered in North Dakota in November 2003. Richard Pryor - This work was done for the legendary comic Richard Pryor, who is currently suffering from MS. Pearl Jam - This work was done in part for the "No Vote Left Behind" drive in September 2004. Really take your time and scan each of the seven examples of Inkblot's work above in order to really see the intricate details throughout them and realize that some of them are made up of 80 or 90 seperate photos. You'll see something new everytime you look! That's part of the fun... Hands-down, people are always blown-way be these works when they first view them, and they are still blown away on every subsequent viewing. Base price for the service is as follows: $50.00 minimum charge (includes the first 5 photographs). $10.00 per photo after the first 5 photos (size of each individual photograph does not matter). Custom border work is an extra $50.00 - $125.00 dollars, depending on the border work of your choice. In other words, for a close estimate if you wanted a piece done that was made up of 46 different photos with a medium effort border then you'd be looking at the following for cost: $50.00 minimum, which includes the first 5 photos. Then it's $10.00 per photo, big or small, after that for the next 41 photos for a total of $410.00. With the $50.00 minimum added on to the total, that's now $460.00. Then add $75.00 for the border and you've got $535.00. After $500.00 in charges has been reached, minus border charges etc., each additional photo then costs only $8.00 each, that's a savings of $2.00 per photo! So a work with, say, 80 photos and no border work would cost you the following: $50.00 minimum, which, again, includes the first 5 photos. Then it's $10.00 per photo, big or small, until $500.00 has been reached, which is another 45 photos. You've now spent your $500.00 minimum and you have 30 more photos yet to have added to the work now at $8.00 per photo for a total of $240.00. Total price for the work of an 80 photo job with no border or other special requests is then $740.00. It is highly recommended that you incorporate 10 to 15 photos, minimum, in any order. Any less and it gets hard to produce the kind of visual quality that one might expect from such a fine artist as Inkblot, though you can certainly get a beautiful rendition done from only 10 or 15 total photos, which at, say, just 15 photos, with no border or extras, would only run you about $150.00 total, which isn't too bad. Works are completed on a first-come first-serve order basis, though you can request that a "rush" be put on your order for an extra one-time fee of $50.00. To put it simply, if you order a 30 picture mural with a full package border and put a "rush" request on it your total final cost would be $475.00. Any applicable sales taxes and additional fees is the sole responsibility of the purchaser (you). Final works come as-is. You will get to see and OK the final copy before payment-in-full is due. This final copy will include type print on it such as "Example Only!" as if Inkblot were sending you the final copy of the work and didn't do so you could just use what he sent you and not pay for it and, of course, that's not happening and is illegal and a theft of services. No returns are allowed. Inkblot puts in the work and effort, you pay. It's as simple as that. Of course you should be happy with the work, but if you are providing pictures that aren't of quality then you can't expect much from them. "It all sounds a bit spendy!" you scream. Well, of course it is. Imagine how long it would take to put that many individual photos together in a tasteful and artistic way such as what Inkblot does? The one piece described above, for instance, with 46 pictures and a border, would take around 25 or 30 hours, minimum, to do, and you would have to have the software, talent and skill, as well as know what you are doing in the first place on top of all of that in order to do it yourself. Try it once and see how it goes. Get together 25 or so photos and try to make it look like one of the 6 examples given above. Good luck... You'll flip-out after an hour or so and not even have a general concept or idea of where or how to even start placing the photos yet in order to be able to even start to work on them. It's always best to just leave it up to a professional, who's been at it for years... Inkblot's favorite motto concerning the price of his works is "If you can't afford it, don't order it!". Later on, if you want additional photos added to a mural or collage, that Inkblot has done for you in the past, it's just a one-time fee of $45.00 for the first 5 photos, and then $7.00 per photo after that per request. Inkblot just makes the mural or collage for you and then sends you the finished product burned to CD, along with any photos that you'd provided to make the work possible. What you do with it after that is up to you. Take it to a printshop and have it framed. Post it online. Have it printed onto a t-shirt. The list is really quite endless with what you can do with the finished product. Please note that upon taking a job, Inkblot requires a down-payment, that is non-refundable, of 40% of the estimated cost of the project. It's happened before where an order has been placed and after spending 25 or 30 hours on a project the person doesn't come through with the payment and it's just a lot of wasted time and effort when there are paying clients waiting in-the-wings behind a dead-beat. For example, if you order a project that has 75 images and no border or extras with it then the non-refundable deposit would be $280.00 before work will even begin on it. Personal checks and money orders are accepted, but will need to clear first. Cash isn't really recommended, although cash is king, as there's really no way to keep a record of it if it is sent as payment so cash is not accepted as payment at this time, unless it is done in person. Inkblot does his work in the Seattle, Washington area. Please try and send pictures to be used in works burned onto a CD in .jpg format when you've placed your order. Please do not send originals to be scanned by Inkblot as that will add another $5.00 per picture scanned on top of any and all other fees, and that can get quite expensive, as well as time consuming for Inkblot, folks. Plus, Inkblot does not want to be responsible for a photo that may be a family keepsake or a one-of-a-kind item. It's best to scan everything yourself, burn it to CD and then send it to Inkblot. Send any and all original photos for your order at your own risk. These are top-quality works that are made with precision, skill and love. Get your very own custom mural or collage of anything of your choosing made today. You will not be disappointed! Have you ever seen an entire lifetime in one photo? Well, order-up and see it done right before your very own eyes... Contact Inkblot For Further Information Or For A Price Quote On Your Very Own Collage Or Mural. *Very Special Notice: You must be the owner, or have expressed written permission from any and all copyright holders, of any and all works sent to Inkblot if it is to be included for use in your order. Inkblot must assume that any and all photographs or other works to be incorporated into an order he has received have already been cleared and that the proper permissions have been given for their use in your order. You agree not to hold Inkblot responsible in any way, shape or form for any damages that may later arise out of such use of photographs, or any number of other such works, by placing an order for said photographs or works to be used. *Prices and terms subject to change without notice! |